CLASSICAL MUSIC MEDALS OF COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS

Prize medals and commemoratives of musical events from various periods in history to the present

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Updated January 2011

Please consult the photos for condition, click on underlined titles for enlarged images. Some medals are almost as made, others have wear.

 

Left: Mozart by Hartig, uniface bronze gVF 54mm GBP 15

 

Right: Joseph Haydn bronze plaquette 51mm x 39mm uniface same maker, M & W Stutte nVF some corrosion GBP 30

engraved J Ellen Performer on edge.

Left: Handel by W J Taylor, Centenary Commemoration Crystal Palace 1859 bronze 51mm. EF but slightly edgy GBP 40

Right Beethoven by F Stiasny bronze plaquette 80x69mm. has been cleaned. uniface GBP 25

Left: Trinity College London - Liverpool Centre Arms of the City of London, prize for proficiency in music, oval bronze 41x32mm. gEF for Violin playing 1896-7 80 marks engraved on edge GBP 15

Right: Le Bulletin Musical (France) a first prize medal for monthly competitions 1882 gilt bronze,57mm EF GBP 35

Left: (Robert Burns portrait) Scottish Song Prize Medal Sir John Leng's Trust; Dundee Public School Competition silver medal 38mm 1961-62 gVF GBP 24

Right: Assoc. Board of Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, all engraved on reverse, awarded to Gladys Ashdowne Gibraltar Jan 1914 Silver 39mm VF 30

 

 

 

Left: C M Bellman guitarist; rev. Lokatten! Lokatten! Min Frande Gutar! with a view of he town by RH 1973, chunky modern bronze 69mm medal GBP 32

Right: Trinity College of Music Birmingham Centre - piano prize 29mm silver with loop GBP 16

Left: International Union of Musicians named to Florence Siddall, blue ribbon - distressed bronze EF 39mm, GBP 10

 

Right: London College of Music founded by Samuel Raphael Belilios, with engraved picture of biblical Miriam with cymbals, tambourine, trumpet rev. awarded 1903 silver with gilt silver star surround 68mm GBP 85

Left: GB London Ealing Musical Festival small prize medal not named bronze 38mm (Pinches?) GBP 10

Right: France, Republique Francaise, concours musical Meaux 1880 base metal F GBP 18

 

Left: Richard Wagner 1813-1883, by R Gardille, high relief copper e;ectroform uniface, probably made for the centenary of Wagner's birth, high quality. 80mm GBP 50

 

 

Left: Society of Science, Letters and Arts London; rev. awarded 1911 silver 38mm EF 30

Right: Sweden, Royal Academy of Music, eleve (Pupil) silver pass 34mm GBP 35

Left: Guildhall School of Music London Local Centres Examinations 1922, Southampton, silver 30mm. GBP 15

Right: John Hopkinson Medal Royal College of Music silver 48mm. looped, awarded, VF 45

Left: College of Organists (instituted 1864) by Topman, pewter 60mm. GBP 45

Right: Switzerland: Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve music prize, silver 53mm. by Bovy EF 90

Left: Beethoven, silver modern struck medal 40mm. marked K 1000 si;ver GBP 15

Right: Handel 1685-1759 portrait; rev. titles of most famous choral works, by Christiane Cochet (MP) 68mm dual patina bronze GBP 50

Left: E. Reyer by J Guerin rev. Conservatoire de Musique et de Declamation Marseilles 50mm silver (marked Argent on edge) boxed VF 75

Right: London Academy of Music 50mm gilt and enamel on base metal gVF 25

France Festival Bourgault-Ducoudray 5 et 11 avril 1908 La Ville de Paris a l'Ecole de chant choral (City of Paris to the School of Choral Music) bronze 50mm EF 20

Richard Wagner 1813-1883, large bronze medal by Lucien Bazor; rev. naked figure of Apollo with lyre, Niggle 2137a EF GBP 165

 

France: De la Musique avant toute chose (a quote from Verlaine) by Roger Bezombes marked cuivre on edge, 1968 dual patina, 81mm. (MP) GBP 95
Franz Schubert by George Simon; roses within heart surrounded by stars 68mm hammered edge bronze (MP) GBP 25
J S Bach by Annette Landry, 1938, reverse: Le Concerto - 2 violinists celebrating the composer's work. 68mm bronze (MP) gEF GBP 35

 

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Condition is described in numismatic terms and is generally extremely fine unless specified.  
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